Consciousness and Physicalism - A Defense of a Research Program

List of contents

1. Introduction: Let's Get Physical
2. The Metaphysics of Physicalism
3. Defining Physicalism
4. A Physicalism with Bite
5. The Explanatory Gap and Consciousness
6. Ignorance and Knowledge
7. The Psychological Turn
8. Conclusion

About the author

Andreas Elpidorou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He specializes in the philosophical study of the mind and has written extensively on the character of consciousness, cognition, and emotions.
Guy Dove is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. He specializes in philosophy of cognitive science and has published articles on concepts, embodied cognition, language development, and physicalism.

Summary

This book explores the nature of consciousness and its place in the world, offering a revisionist account of what it means to say that consciousness is nothing over and above the physical.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Dove, Andreas Elpidorou, Andreas (University of Louisville Elpidorou, Andreas Dove Elpidorou, Elpidorou Andreas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367666781
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66678-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology